04 October 2008

Amir Attaran, the Ottawa law professor who found the medical records detailing the facial injuries suffered by one of the detainees and reported them to the independent Military Police Complaints Commission in February, 2007, said he was not persuaded by the CFNIS conclusions.

“I have absolutely no trust in an investigation of the military by the military,” Mr. Attaran said yesterday.

He and Iggy go waaay back. So you have to wonder how close they still are.

http://lists.essential.org/pipermail/ip-health/2003-March/004419.html

According to Michael Ignatieff and Michelle Greene, the Director andExecutive Director of the Carr Center at Harvard, Amir's new researchposition is funded through a secret anonymous grant, that was given toRoger Bate's Africa Fight Malaria group, and then to Harvard.Ignatieff and Greene will not disclose who the funder actually is, butclaim "it is not from the pharmaceutical industry nor from any sourcethat would involve a conflict of interest."